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Press firmly but don’t compress the soil extensively. After that, fill in the empty space between the pot and the soil ball using your fingers and work the potting mix down among the roots. Before you place the root ball in the new pot, you should remove dead roots. Or just order our highly recommended Citrus soil by Oscar Tintori, which we import from Tuscany, Italy. The soil can be mixed, using structuring elements such as gravel and lavastone and adding good garden soil and peat or a little silica sand. Your new pot should be bigger by about 4 cm in diameter than the old one. You can easily judge whether this is the case: If the roots already grow out of the drain hole, it’s time for a bigger pot.
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A drastic pruning, as done with our local fruit trees, is definitely not advised.Īt the end of the winter, you should repot the lemon tree, if the old pot has grown too small. Also dead branches should be removed regularly as they strain the plant. Lemon trees can grow very rich, so that a regular but very moderate form of pruning is necessary in order to keep them in shape. Of course, you can also use our wintering service and we’ll take care of your plant for the cold season. In this case, you need to increase the light availability, possibly by an additional plant light. A warm wintering in a living room, on the other hand, often leads to leaf loss, as the plant gets too little light there. Since the plants cease their vegetation below 12.5☌, they manage to stay healthy with less light available. Ideal are cool, rather dark winter quarters such as an unheated staircase. It is important that the plants have a balanced relationship between temperature and light. Like all citrus plants, lemon trees must be protected from frost. Waterlogging is very dangerous and should be avoided by always using pots with a drain hole, which you put onto pot feet. That way, you won’t water the lemon tree too much, which happens a lot.
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We recommend using the moisture meter of My Orangerie, so you’ll know exactly how wet the soil is underneath. He needs a sunny, sheltered spot, regular watering and fertilizing, ideally with Plantas Zitruszauber which is specially adapted to the needs of lemon trees. If you miss more varieties: Please contact us, we will help you to obtain your desired lemon.Ī lemon tree is very easy to care for. The fruits impress not only with their beautiful yellow-red shaded color but also with their heady scent. On top of that there are many other lemon varieties like the exotic Citrons with their famous representative “Hand of Buddha” to be found in our shop.Ī fantastic rarity are the red lemons or "mulled wine lemons". At "My Orangerie" we offer you the most popular variety, Citrus lemon "Four Seasons", which blooms throughout the year. Lemon trees are so popular and grown for centuries because of the high importance of their fruits in our diet and the supply of vitamins. The flowers will soon change into small lemon fruit, ripen for a while and can be harvested later on. The lemon flowers are of purple color in the beginning and turn into bright white later on. It is the most productive of all citrus plants, blooming from spring to autumn and often in the winter if placed in suitable surroundings.
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Hardly any other plant offers so much vitality and health as the lemon (Bot: Citrus limon). A lemon tree inspires the whole family, old and young.